Cross-industry information sharing and analyst performance

• Main Authors: HUANG, Allen, LIN, An-ping, ZANG, Amy
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: financial analyst; information sharing; economically connected industries; forecast accuracy; recommendation profitability; social network; All-Star ranking; Accounting; Finance and Financial Management; Management Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1839; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2866/viewcontent/SSRN_id3502820.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study shows that analyst research benefits from the sharing of information about economically connected industries among colleagues. Measuring the intensity of potential information sharing with the level of economic connection between an analyst’s industry and her colleagues’ industries, we fi...